Are baby boomers who were vaccinated against small pox in the 50' and 60's still immune from the desase
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Yes. You will be immune for the rest of your life against it. One of the ways you develop immunity is to get a disease/bacteria/virus and survive it. You received an innoculation. It's an artificial way to "survive" small-pox. The anti-bodies that were in the serum developed by infecting a horse and filtering out their Lymph (which contains the antibodies) are being happily copied by your own body to this day.
maybe..but...a booster would be a definite
The baby boomers on my dept. only had to get a booster, not the whole vaccine.
How long does a smallpox vaccination last?
Past experience indicates that the first dose of the vaccine offers protection from smallpox for 3 to 5 years, with decreasing immunity thereafter. If a person is vaccinated again later, immunity lasts longer.
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